Lansing, Michigan, a republican paper, has remarked: "The
socialists in the labor unions are tireless workers. They are
sincere, energetic, and self-sacrificing. . . . They stick to the
union and work all the while, thus making a showing which, reckoned
by ordinary standards, is out of all proportion to their numbers.
Their cause is growing among union laborers, and their long fight,
intended to turn the Federation into a political organization, is
likely to win."

They miss no opportunity of driving home the necessity for political
action, the necessity for capturing the political machinery of
society whereby they may master society. As an instance of this is
the avidity with which the American socialists seized upon the
famous Taft-Vale Decision in England, which was to the effect that
an unincorporated union could be sued and its treasury rifled by
process of law. Throughout the United States, the socialists
pointed the moral in similar fashion to the way it was pointed by
the Social-Democratic Herald, which advised the trade-unionists, in
view of the decision, to stop trying to fight capital with money,
which they lacked, and to begin fighting with the ballot, which was
their strongest weapon.

Night and day, tireless and unrelenting, they labor at their self-
imposed task of undermining society. Mr. M. G. Cunniff, who lately
made an intimate study of trade-unionism, says: "All through the
unions socialism filters. Almost every other man is a socialist,
preaching that unionism is but a makeshift." "Malthus be damned,"
they told him, "for the good time was coming when every man should
be able to rear his family in comfort." In one union, with two
thousand members, Mr. Cunniff found every man a socialist, and from